The patient with word-finding difficulty presents a common and challenging clinical problem.
The complaint of 'word-finding difficulty'covers a wide range of clinical phenomena and may …

Earlier formulations of the relation of language and the brain provided oversimplified
accounts of the nature of language disorders, classifying patients into syndromes …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

Many facts about aphasic and nonaphasic naming are explained by models that use
spreading activation to map from the semantics of a word to its phonology. The implemented …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

Five computational models of lexical access during production are tested for their ability to
account for the distribution of aphasic picture-naming errors. The naming profiles (N= 14) …

Sixteen Spanish aphasic patients named drawings of objects on three occasions. Multiple
regression analyses were carried out on the naming accuracy scores. For the patient group …

The existence of the functional syndrome of auditory-verbal short-term storage impairment
was used as strong supporting evidence for the presence of a phonological buffer in the first …

Purpose The typicality treatment approach on improving naming was investigated within 2
inanimate categories (furniture and clothing) using a single-subject experimental design …